Steam is the WORST thing i've ever experienced..... And i've been run over. Fell head first from a high-dive platform. Rolled down a 2000ft drop launching several times. Was homeless over a year and a half. A thousand other terrible things have happened to me through various other means and circumstances throughout my years. And dealing with this "steam" nonsense garbage fascist piece of ♥♥♥♥ "service" makes them all seem as rather enjoyable experiences by comparison.
Steam is setting the corporate bar every day to new lows. Good job, steam, you are the Randy Newman of the online world.
Bought a game that FORCED me to be here. But since I didn't buy a game FROM here, I have NO "rights" to comment or rate or find friends or any other function of this PATHETIC ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ service that I was FORCED into using by the corporate tactic of "gaming the language" involved in the download description.
No rational person would EVER assume that a digital download would change the single-player functionality of an "online-optional" stand-alone game (by removing and replacing the .exe files with web-based URLs). In fact, it boggles the mind of ANY rational person that ANY company would do such a thing....... no, really, i've asked around..... not only is this behavior un-heard-of, but extremely offensive to ANYONE with a functioning brain.
Release the .exe files, steam, you twisted sick demented greedy fascists.
Or keep being the single most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ group of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fascists to exist as an online "marketplace"-GOGO STEAM, you sick twisted ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

9 years later: steam has only rotted in its own filthy greed. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pathetic ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of self-aggrandizing profiteering at any cost.

update - somehow worse than ever. (how do they keep finding these new lows??!?)